In 2007, tea pluckers on a Unilever plantation were brutally attacked in the midst of ethnical violence triggered by a contested presidential election. As the company failed to protect them despite clear warning signs of impending violence, the victims are now taking it to court to demand reparations
Kenyan Tea Workers Demand Reparations From Unilever For Failing to Protect Them From Attacks
Tea pluckers say the brutal attacks were foreseeable but the household-goods giant failed to protect them.
Representative image. A boy standing by houses on a tea plantation near Nairob, Kenya. Photo: Bryon Lippincott/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0
World17/Mar/2021
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Patients and public health workers yesterday united apart in a day of tears: The medics bidding farewell to one of their own felled by coronavirus as their patients writhed in pain.
Hospitals remained deserted after doctors joined nurses and clinical officers in their strike.
Patients agonised as doctors officially declared job boycott at the burial of Dr Stephen Mogusu, who until his death was fighting Covid-19 at Machakos Level Five Hospital.
His colleagues say he lost the war to the virus because the government failed to listen to their pleas to improve working conditions – including providing protective gear, life and medical covers, promotions and recruiting more doctors.